Montreal's first cut flower green care farm is not only growing beautiful blooms, it's also blossoming bonds between people with and without intellectual disabilities. The new project was born out of the love between a former medical ethicist and her neurodivergent big brother.
"We feel really, really good about it," said Posy Flower Farm founder Lucy Wade, standing next to her older brother Harris. "I think for me, it's a bit like coming home."
Wade created Posy Flower Farm in Montreal this spring on a small plot of land at the Verdun borough's municipal greenhouse. Where the flowers are now growing, dahlias, cosmos and zinnias among them, not long ago, there was just grass and weeds on the "unloved" tract.
"It was a huge job. It just took a little elbow grease, eh Harris?" she said to her brother. Harris lives with an intellectual disability. He works regular shifts at the flower farm, along with new employee, Ellis, who is also is also neurodivergent.
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